amallatar

amallatar

Aragonese

FWOTD – 16 March 2015

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.ʎa.ˈta(ɾ)/

Verb

amallatar

1. (of cattle) to rest in the shade when it is too hot
   • 2009, José Maria Satué Sanromán, Zien semanas de carasol aragonés, EDACAR, page 14:

     En os caxicars d’os solanos se feban as buerdas, p’amallatar os casalizos (rabaño chicote de reses que no baxa enta Tierra Baxa), en parte de l’ibierno.

     In the oak woods in the sunny sides of mountains, barns were built so that the casalizos (small herds of cattle that don’t descend to the Lowland) could rest, during part of winter.

2. (by extension) to have a siesta
   • July-October 2007, Fuella d'informazión d'o Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, page 13:

     Astí, chunto a o ibón más gran, e chusto debaxo d’a Peña Gabarda, amallatamos.

     There, next to the greatest tarn, and just beneath Peña Gabarda, we napped.

References

• “amallatar” in Pedro Arnal Cavero, Vocabulario del alto-aragonés (de Alquézar y pueblos próximos), Archivo de Filología Aragonesa (2007-2008)